To Kill a Mockingbird (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

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Published in 1960, and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is required reading for many middle and high school students. The coming-of-age tale of its young narrator, Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, of Maycomb, Alabama, is interwoven with explorations of the issues of prejudice, racism, innocence, compassion, and hypocrisy. Libraries will welcome this indispensable and completely updated edition of Bloom's "Modern Critical Interpretations". A compilation of important current criticism on Harper Lee's first and only novel gleaned from key publications, this accessible study guide also includes a chronology of the author's life and notes on the contributors.

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Courage and cowardice in a 1930s Alabama town.

The title, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Harper Lee, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

About the Author:

Considered the world's cheif authority on Shakespeare, Harold Bloom is now in his 46th year of teaching at Yale University. His latest book How to Read and Why joins a prodigious literary output which includes the editorship of this flagship study guide series.

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Book Description Chelsea House Publishers, United States, 2006. Hardback. Book Condition: New. Revised edition. 236 x 163 mm. Language: English Brand New Book. Published in 1960, and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, To Kill a Mockingbird is required reading for many middle and high school students. The coming-of-age tale of its young narrator, Jean Louise Scout Finch, of Maycomb, Alabama, is interwoven with explorations of the issues of prejudice, racism, innocence, compassion, and hypocrisy. Libraries will welcome this indispensable and completely updated edition of Bloom s Modern Critical Interpretations . A compilation of important current criticism on Harper Lee s first and only novel gleaned from key publications, this accessible study guide also includes a chronology of the author s life and notes on the contributors. Bookseller Inventory # FLT9780791093085

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Book Description Chelsea House Publishers, United States, 2006. Hardback. Book Condition: New. Revised edition. 236 x 163 mm. Language: English Brand New Book. Published in 1960, and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, To Kill a Mockingbird is required reading for many middle and high school students. The coming-of-age tale of its young narrator, Jean Louise Scout Finch, of Maycomb, Alabama, is interwoven with explorations of the issues of prejudice, racism, innocence, compassion, and hypocrisy. Libraries will welcome this indispensable and completely updated edition of Bloom s Modern Critical Interpretations . A compilation of important current criticism on Harper Lee s first and only novel gleaned from key publications, this accessible study guide also includes a chronology of the author s life and notes on the contributors. Bookseller Inventory # FLT9780791093085